NRL Fantasy 2021 Part 4 - Praying that nobody gets hurt

L-Jimmy wrote:

eh. Maybe a few points underpriced, but plays Origin, isn't cheap, and hasn't shown the type of play style that ups the scoring under the new rules.

And as his points come from tackles I'm not sure Manly doing better (which I also don't buy) will help him much.

Not a pick that would ruin a season, sure. But I would much rather Murray / Twal / Tauk / Saifiti in the same price bracker.

robelgordo wrote:

Yeah got those three plus Brooks atm

If you’re stronger elsewhere, it’s because you’ve sacrificed too much in the halves

TheRookie101 wrote:No love for Jake Trbojevic? Plays 80 minutes at lock and I believe Manly will go better this year.
Plus his combo with his brother could increase his points. Also he his tackling technique could cause a few loose carries.

A safe 80 minute option with McInness out for the year and Taumalolo less minutes. Opinions?

multiple.scoregasms wrote:

Very boring MS style pick

Scoring is all meat and potatoes tackles and metres

Tier below captaincy and price shouldn't fluctuate too much so probably a no from me to start the season

TheRookie101 wrote:No love for Jake Trbojevic? Plays 80 minutes at lock and I believe Manly will go better this year.
Plus his combo with his brother could increase his points. Also he his tackling technique could cause a few loose carries.

A safe 80 minute option with McInness out for the year and Taumalolo less minutes. Opinions?

Mulvy wrote:

Calm down everyone,  my team changes every five minutes,  I don't feel the need to post it and there's a month to go. Suffice to say,  if you're going Cook and two gun halves,  there will be sacrifices somewhere.

White Lightning wrote:

I was reading on a sc forum that Jurbo's hit ups have reduced over the last couple of years & a lot of the time he's just a link to DCE so he doesn't run the ball to the line so you're probably just relying on tackles as he has no attacking threat.

The Bludger wrote:

Your team is suspiciously Bludgers-like.
I'm running a current draft of:
Grant / JBrailey / Liddle
Watson / Tino / LAM / BMM
DFifi / Davey / Blore / Riki
Cleary (c) / Brooks / Lam
Bird / Roberts / Hopo
Teddy / Turbo / Laurie / Simonsson
$50k ITB

Like you, I'm still not sold on Tino, but have picked him as a defensive move based on popularity.
Hopo came in for Averillo, while I had looked at Moylan as cover.
I notice there's not too much love for Brooks on here, it's just a gut call, but I think he'll Tate his game to the next level now the team is his to run.
If his Kick metres, assists etc. he could up his average to 55, 15+ will do me.

Obviously BMM, Blore etc. are all TL dependent.

Rabbits21 wrote:

There has been a couple of posters I think concerned Brooks won’t get as many kick metres as we think and that he will share the kicking duties with Doueihi....

mattnz wrote:STAR RECRUIT’S INJURY SETBACK

South Sydney’s star recruit Jai Arrow has suffered an injury setback as coach Wayne Bennett declared NSW Origin gun Cameron Murray had won the race for the Rabbitohs’ No. 13 jersey.

Arrow has missed three weeks of pre-season training at his new club after suffering a hamstring strain.

The former Gold Coast Titans gun is back in training now, but is out of the running for his favoured position at Redfern.

After suffering a hamstring injury in Game One of last November’s State of Origin series, Murray is on track to start the 2021 NRL season at lock for South Sydney.

Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart says Jarrod Croker is ahead of schedule in his recovery from shoulder surgery and is hopeful of having his captain on deck for round one.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/supercoach-news/nrl-casualty-ward-2021-every-club-every-injury-every-return-date/news-story/5019ce8ac503ea218b4fad3974e13afa

robelgordo wrote:

I think a half heavy strategy could be as viable as the old all gun hooker bench play a few years back. Bench depth might be stretched but a few DPP cashies and you’re sweet

EDIT: I quoted the wrong MS post lol. Not even drinking

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